酒馆音乐剧板块《曲外之音》，跟璐璐和英国资深音乐剧人Oliver一起品名音乐剧背后的故事，让高雅艺术触手可得~公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】可以索要英语全文稿哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Sound of Musicals. 欢迎回来【曲外之音】. Hi Oliver. Hello. So what are we gonna talk about today? In the very first interview I had with you, you talked about your theater groups have put on quite a few musicals, and you mentioned Les Misérables, but what else? One of my earliest musicals that I had a speaking part in, not a lead role, but I was on stage a lot, I was talking. It was West Side Story. Okay, based on our conversations before, you don't really strike me as someone who would be in West Side Story, like essentially a gangster story, right？ It is basically, yes, it's a story about two gangs in New York fighting for control of their neighborhood who is the top gang. West Side Story is one of those things I'm not sure if it's very popular among Chinese audience, but if people in English speaking countries, if they know anything about musical theater, they have at least heard of it. Yes, I'm not sure how many people would say it's their favorite, but most people have heard of it, yes, either the musical or the two movies that were made of it. The latest movie version of West Side Story was released only last year 2021 by Spielberg. Yes, it came out last year. I haven't seen it but the reviews are quite positive. Online reviews seem to like the movie. I checked on Rotten Tomatoes, they’re getting as high as 93% which is amazing. That is quite good. I have to admit I only watched some of it, but the whole cinematography how they shot it looked amazing, definitely have to find a time to watch the entire thing, little bit about the background. So it debuted in the 1950s, right？ Yes, in 1957 is when it opened, and it did quite well, lots of people did enjoy it. They went to see it and they had about 1,000 shows within 3 years, so it did very well for itself. And I think one of the things that made Wide Side Story really popular or special is not just the gang stories, but it's also that is based on a Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. Yes, so the background and sort of the under story, the story itself really is based on Romeo and Juliet this idea of two gangs fighting in a city; and then a boy from one gang, a girl from the other fall in love, and everything that happens between them. It's basically modern-day Romeo and Juliet set in New York. Yes, that is exactly it is, it's modern setting for Romeo and Juliet. And there are different take in some areas, some things are a little different, but overall the story is quite similar I think to Romeo and Juliet. It's just instead of rival families, these are rival gangs, but I suppose it's the equivalent of rival families. It is yes, when Romeo and Juliet was set, it was family gangs but not everybody in the family was actually related. You could be in somebody's family but not their brother, their cousin, anything like that. They could be your friend. The Clan, like the clan culture, like a family clan. Yes, exactly. So you could be friends of the family fighting with them, but not actually in the family. All right. So, let me give you that impossible task again of giving us a very, very brief summary of the plot. ... 公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】可以索要英语全文稿哦~

【Geek Time】-“极客”时间，和“科技宅”Brad一起聊神秘有趣的“黑科技”“高科技”“硬科技”。欢迎关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，可以查看更多精彩内容，查看英语全文稿哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Geek Time. This is Brad. Hey, Lulu, how are you going? Actually, it’s Geek Time advanced. Geek Time advanced, that’s right. Hey, Brad. So last time we were talking about NFT. Yeah, so we're gonna kind of talk a little bit about the speculative nature of the NFT as an asset, like the stock market. Speculative, basically, means you're taking a lot of risks. NFT just sounds like all speculation to me because it doesn't have any real, in a traditional sense, any like real sort of value. Right. In some cases, it does have value because it can give you like a commercial right to use something. But when it comes to, some of it is just you buy a piece of art and you're hoping that maybe someone will want to buy that from you later at a higher price. But it's still different though. If I buy an actual painting, I can hang it up in my room for people to see. And later on I can sell that actually that very tangible piece of painting to other people. But NFT, I can't hold in my hand. And if I lose the file, I lose all of my money, right? If you lose the file, you lose everything. Like it's connected to like when you look at it, it doesn't have any value unless you have a buyer. That's the one thing like that one makes it quite speculative, right? You can't sell it unless you have a buyer; when it comes to the stock market or something like that, you buy a stock, there's a value that's inherent in the company. But when you have like a piece of art, may not have anyone that wants to buy that at any point ever. So it doesn't have any intrinsic value in that way. Because I know you, I know you invest in stock market and even in crypto-currency, what about NFT, would you in the future ever consider investing in NFT market? I don't think I would ever actually buy any NFTs, unless that NFT carried some sort of licensable rights that I could use. Okay. Like if it was just… maybe like a song, if I can…the NFT gave me the right to use a song or something like that. But you will only buy it if you can profit from it, not just because you really like this artist that you would buy an NFT. Probably not. I'll buy the T-shirt from someone. All right, probably much cheaper. When did it all start? This started about 2011, as when they think the first NFT was actually made, could have been before that. But this was like the first time that anyone has like recorded knowledge of an NFT that I've seen. Someone made an art piece of art at GPEG, basically. I don't know if that was the actual file, but it was a graphic piece of art that they sold as an NFT; and then after that, there wasn't really a whole lot. But in 2015, Ethereum started selling like hexagon tiles to their world. They sold all the hexagon tiles for something like $1.4 million. Not a piece, but the total. But still, I mean that is a very very new concept. Why do you think NFT, since it was pretty much created, the whole concept was created 5 or even 10 years ago, why do you think was all the buzz about NFT now like in the past year or so?.... 欢迎关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，可以查看更多精彩内容，查看英语全文稿哦~

"欢迎来到英文小酒馆的迷你双语板块【Buzzword Mix】-新词特饮，短短几分钟，让不同段位的你掌握最新最地道的英文谈资！ 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~" In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is That Girl. You heard it right, it's super simple. Today's buzzword only consists of two of the most simple words in English vocabulary, that girl. However, “that girl” is a viral phenomenon that's been going around on TikTok since last year, and its popular has also split over onto other platforms including YouTube. 今天的buzzword我们就来聊聊从去年开始火遍社交媒体的这个标签 “that girl-那个女孩”. First things first, who is that girl？ Well, of course “that girl” is not any girl in particular. It is, however, essentially a viral wellness trend. 所谓的那个女孩指的不是特定的某个女生, 而是去年开始火遍社交媒体的一种wellness trend. Wellness这个词蛮难翻译的, a combination of your physical, mental, and spiritual health, 基本可以把它理解为你的身心灵都全面健康. People who want to be “that girl, they are embracing the best version of themselves or showing the best version of themselves, and trying to level up their life. 所以”那个女孩”指的也就是社交媒体上永远都自律阳光正能量的完美女神. The “that girl” trend first rose in popularity on TikTok in April last year, videos with the #thatgirl had billions of views, many of these encouraged the viewer to become that girl. “那个女孩”的风潮去年在 TikTok上走红, 很快就达到了过亿的播放，一时有无数的人开始发短视频, 争当”那个女孩”. So how do you become that girl？ Let me walk you through her routine. So that girl wakes up really early in the morning. She cooks and eats a plant-based breakfast. “那个女孩”早上总是很早起床, 然后下厨给自己做一份健康又美丽的素食早餐. And then she journals her thoughts in a neatly section day planner. 她会在自己的每日计划文里工工整整的写下今天要做的事项以及她的心得体会. She chants affirmations, perhaps saying to herself in the mirror you are the best. 她随时随地都在对自己进行自我肯定的暗示. She works out in cute coordinated outfits. 她健身的时候永远穿着超高颜值的成套的健身服. After working out she gulps some green juices which is really good for your system. 健完身再来一大杯绿色的果蔬汁. She is productive, professionally successful, and somehow still finds time for skin care, meditation, and all the time taking perfect photos of all of the evolve for social media. 她不仅效率惊人, 事业有成, 永远的保持着最佳状态; 同时护肤冥想一样也没落下, 还有时间把自己所有的这些完美瞬间都拍成照片或者视频分享在社交媒体上. So this is a typical “that girl”. This all sounds a little bit exhausting to me, but there are many people who enjoyed the “that girl” trend, especially young women. For example Hollie, an 18-year-old lifestyle YouTuber based in the UK, feels like the trend is about finding joy within the small moments找到生活的小确幸; whilst also establishing daily habits and routines that allow you to be healthy mentally, physically, and spiritually. 她就认为that girl的风潮确实可以激励你去追求身、心、灵的全面健康. She said “I think if you focus on the feelings you get from following this trend, and how engaging in these habits can improve your overall well-being, then it can actually be very helpful and motivating”. Another young video creator who also became “that girl” last year, she calls the trend more of a “highlight reel” . 另外一位也跟风拍了视频的女孩就认为that girl的这种视频其实更像一个highlight reel, 高光时刻的集锦. ... 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~"

【Geek Time】-“极客”时间，和“科技宅”Brad一起聊神秘有趣的“黑科技”“高科技”“硬科技”。欢迎关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，可以查看更多精彩内容，查看英语全文稿哦~ Hi everyone. And welcome back to Geek Time.欢迎回来【极客时间】。Hi, Brad. Hello. I know that I always ask you what we're gonna talk about, but can I propose a topic today? Right, what do you have in mind? NFT. OK. Something I see everywhere now, but I just don't understand. Would you say NFT is a big topic in English speaking world as well? I would say it's really big, it's all over in the news these days. You see it just about anywhere, on Facebook, on YouTube, you'll see just tons and tons of videos and news stories about people buying NFTs. But please tell me that people in English speaking world also don't understand, most of them… Most of them really have no idea what it is, like a lot of them like the boomers are just like what is this NFT stuff. Boomers are old. Ok, first things first, NFT in Chinese is called非同质化代币。同质就是同样的 I don't know, maybe同样的性质的代币it still sounds very technical, in English, it's… Non-Fungible Token. Fungible means…? Not replaceable. Not replaceable token, token is almost like a little coin, right, that you use; and they are art pieces, could you give us a, like a very general, description of what is a Non-Fungible Token? Non-Fungible Tokens can really be any type of file format. They could be like jpeg art, they could be movie files, they could be music files, they could be 3D printable files, just about anything, but it ends kind of like involves just a bunch of data that you can sell. But it's not replaceable because you have one file, and this file can only be used by like one person at a time. Ok, so let me put it in an even simpler way, if you Brad were an artist, you made a digital creation, like a painting, digital painting. I wanna buy that painting, like I wanna buy the NFT of that painting, basically I buy something digital and then there's a file that shows I own the digital version of that painting or that digital painting. Right, you would own like a license afore, right, so you wouldn’t own like the copyright to it. Like original owner, the original creator of that, they would own the copyright to that idea, but like you could own depending upon like the base kind of, like the contractual agreement with the NFT, you could either just own it and have it for your own use or maybe even use it for like a license to be able to sell things containing that graphic or art. 所以就是原著者/原创者还是有著作权，还是有版权 copyright. But I have, depending on how much I pay, depending on the contract, I will have some form of ownership either I can just have it to myself or I can use it for commercial use to make money. Yeah. And usually you said only one copy, but it's not just one copy, is it? You can own one copy, you could own 10 copies of it, basically like the person who makes the art or whoever makes the NFT can make as many copies as they want, and so like the value of that can be really based on the number of copies, maybe there's only one copy of it or maybe… And that is very, very expensive, if they're like millions of copies, then it's really cheap. Exactly. I see. So say I pay you the money, I got the copy. What do I get? I don't just get the picture, I get a file? It's a file, it's like a block chain file, so you get something that's like the art, but also it comes with like a block chain that shows like your ownership of it. Block Chain就是区块链。 Another topic that we can really go into, but essentially I just get like a digital file that proves the ownership, ok.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ 【America Under the Microscope】Advanced Keywords • Late night wars （Previous generation of famous comics） Fight for viewers Controversy over who takes over the show • Outdated format YouTube and subscription-based TV No need to stay up late to watch Lack of originality • Modern hosts Much more friendly rivalry Hello everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi, Lulu. Hi, James. So we're gonna continue our talk about late night talk shows, and I want to know what talk shows do you like? I've been watching the Daily Show. I've watched a lot of Daily Show, but not so much with the new host. Trevor Noah? Yeah. I mean, I like Trevor Noah. But I started watching the Daily Show when John Stewart was still the host. I remember watching the Daily Show when I was still in university, a long time ago. What attracts you to… for example the Daily Show. What I liked about the Daily Show is because it was different than other late night talk shows, yet and also, Stephen Colbert’s previous show, The Colbert Report. Oh, I love Colbert Report. Because they were literally fake news. So it was kind of poking fun of like the Cable News programs. So they were just doing things very differently; and also their interviews that they did. They interviewed people that you wouldn't see on the regular talk shows because they interviewed like scientists, writers that you would not normally think of… One thing that always shocks me about the Daily Shows is like some of the interviews these people they look legit, you think are they just playing alone with this whole comic act? I think sometimes they were. Or do they actually think this is a serious interview? Most of them are aware that it's a comic act, but the hosts were pretty good at like jesting based on the guest that they had there. So they know some can be more playful or others play a more straight. Yeah, but I mean, I'm not saying it's scripted, but they've definitely talked to these people before. It's not like live interview. One thing that always gets to me is that sometimes people get really offended by like the Daily Show. And then they're like this is just fake. This is not true. Well, dah, this is like we're comedians. It's not a news program. I think this is very important to see things like the Daily Show as just satirical comedy. There's satirical about absolutely everything, to not take it seriously. This is one thing I think that… personally I think it's the ability to take a joke, you don't have to agree with them, right? And that's the thing. What I like about some of these shows especially like the Daily Show is that I like the sort of the comedy timing, a lot of the hosts and also the co-hosts on this show they've got perfect comedy timing, and their own different style. They're all comedians and they're all have practicing it for years and getting on the Daily Show like if you're a comedian and get on the daily shows. You're really an upcoming comic. I do watch things like Fallon and Kimmel sometimes, but honestly for me personally that is a little bit too family friendly for my taste. Yeah, they're… the big ones like Fallon and Kimmel, they're trying mass appeal, they're trying to reach out to be… the general public. I mean Colbert is a little bit different. He does bit more satire, so it kind of misses with some of the population. He's actually involved in politics, right? Colbert? Partially. I mean, he's jokingly run things, um, but he is known to be a bit more political than the other hosts. 可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~

"欢迎来到英文小酒馆的迷你双语板块【Buzzword Mix】-新词特饮，短短几分钟，让不同段位的你掌握最新最地道的英文谈资！ 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~" In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is the Goblin Mode. Now if you have been following TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter lately, chances are you have seen this new trend？ 今天的buzzword里，咱们就来聊聊最近在国外的社交媒体很火的一个词, the Goblin Mode--哥布林模式. To understand what that is, we need to understand the original meaning of the word “goblin”. In European folklore, goblin is a general name for evil and malicious spirits, usually small and grotesque in appearance. 在欧洲的民间传说里就提到这样一种长相怪异丑陋的像精灵一样的类人生物, 他们被叫做Goblin哥布林; 如果你喜欢奇幻题材的影视游戏, 肯定也见过goblin这样的存在. Now in many of the stories, they are described as a subterranean species, so they live underground. They don't really socialize with humans apart from causing them trouble, and they pay zero attention to how they look. 关于哥布林的形象怎么说, 就是颜值一言难尽的那种. 他们很多时候生活在地下, 和人也没有什么良性的互动. Now you might be asking, but how is goblin related to us？ Picture this: it’s Saturday afternoon, and you have hundreds of things to do, but instead of doing them, you're in your pajamas, you make yourself a comforting bowl of instant noodles and devour them, splashing soup over your chin and your bed sheets while your dog looks at you in disgust. 比如你可以想象在某一个宅家的周末, 你穿着睡衣, 刚狼吞虎咽下一包泡面, 泡面的汤汁滴的你睡衣还有床上到处都是, 连你们家狗子都在一边嫌弃你. You've just binged an entire web series and are preparing to start another. 你刚 “肝”完了一部狗血的网剧, 马上连“肝”下一部. You feel a bit like a slob. Look at yourself in a mirror, you're just in “Goblin mode”. 那么恭喜你, 完美达成了你的 “哥布林模式”. So this Goblin Mode, which is taking the current pandemic-ridden world by storm, is a state of being that is defined by behaviors people got used to during deep lockdown days. 所谓的“哥布林模式” 就是因为这几年断断续续长期的疫情宅家, 我们已经很习惯的那种居家生活, 躺平摆烂的状态. ... 字数有限，全文文稿请关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~"

搜公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。 KEY WORDS • Late night talk show Basic • Video clips of Jimmy Fallon/Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are popular on Chinese social media • What is Late night talk shows? History • Started late 40s early 50s • Evolved from variety shows • Created the format • Monologue • Comedy • Celebrity interviews • A house band • Musical performances • Format hasn’t changed Now the big three popular talk shows? • The Late Show • The Tonight Show • Jimmy Kimmel Live • Evolution Late night comedy news The daily Show Hi everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【 闲话美国】. Hi James. Hi Lulu, hi everyone. So what's our topic today? Well, I've been noticing on Chinese social media a lot right now, clips from comedians like Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert seem to be really popular here. Are we going to about talk shows? We're going to talk about talk shows, specifically kind of like the American style of talk shows. First of all, what is the idea of talk show? In Chinese, we translated it directly into脱口秀, but is it just like a one host and then guest speakers so… like what we're doing now? A little bit like what we're doing now, so talk show, you have the host. Uh. And usually, the host is a comedian because they’re also gonna, you know, spend part of the time just talking by themselves and tell jokes, but then they interview usually celebrities, but it could be things like musicians, comedians, actors, famous authors, and even sometimes politicians, too. But the whole undertone of it is comic? Yes. The undertone of these shows is comic and entertaining. So the interviews usually are not serious, it 's not a news interview or anything like that. So they are no serious talk shows? Like a serious dialogue asking, for example, politicians about the policies they want to make? In those kind of things, we would consider that more of a news talk show, and those do exist. But usually that's not going to be hosted by a comedian that's going to be hosted by a journalist. Oh, so when people about talk shows in America, most people would think it's more like a comic. More light hearted. We do have kind of like daytime talk shows which tend to be more… not serious but not quite comedic. That's another thing. When it comes to脱口秀, you have the idea of daytime就是日间的脱口秀and late night深夜脱口秀. 去【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目全文逐字文稿~

《知乎哲也》板块，由受到大家喜爱的哲学小哥TJ和主播璐璐一起探讨哲学那些事儿~ 公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】可以搜索英语全文稿哦~ Welcome back to 【Let's Philosophize】. 欢迎回来《知乎哲也》。 In the previous episode, we were talking to TJ about “doubting and knowing”, let’s continue with that topic. Yeah. Depends on the context, depending on what you represent, depending on the historical limitations, geographical limitations, cultural limitations, political limitations, you see, kind of like a relative fact or relative truth. So this is the argument of whether there is ultimate truth in the world. Yes, exactly. And how do we find that truth if things are quite relative？So… this already sounds quite difficult and it's… but there's three more to go. The next one is criticism of any theory like Descartes. He's very critical… Foundationalism. Yeah, it's a very big challenge because if you have a foundation, then you have to prove that foundation. Exactly. Actually this was what I wanted to ask you when you mentioned Descartes’ foundationalism. 刚才TJ讲笛卡尔的基础主义的时候, 我就特别想问, 就是说If you assume, for example, the foundation of all the other things, of your entire belief system, for example, is “he loves me, we have a good relationship” , if this is your foundation, then all of your subsequent thinking is built on thinking he definitely loves me, this is the truth. But what if that is not the truth. Then your entire belief system collapses, right？ Right. So, isn't that the problem with foundationalism？How can you make sure that foundation is solid？ Exactly. Exactly. And this is the problem with all of philosophy really is that we just keep doubting. You try to find some foundation, but then you have to doubt the foundation. And you need more proof. It's difficult being a philosopher, isn't it？ Yeah. Yeah. It's quite difficult. So far, we’ve talked about the dissent among experts, 专家之间的异议; Number two, we talked about relativism, 相对主义, so people are restricted by different context, their background; Number three is foundationalism, 基础主义, so you have to doubt the foundation. There’re two more. I think the next one to talk about is infinite regress. This is just what happens if we don't have a foundation. If we can't have a foundation, then you just keep asking why. Infinite regress是无限后退. Does that mean, for example, you say, fundamental belief he loves me. How can you be sure he loves you？Then you doubt that. And then you just keep going down that rabbit hole. Keep asking yeah, but how can you prove that？But how can you prove that？But how can you prove that？ Exactly. That's the infinite regress. Yeah, the best way of thinking about the infinite regress, I think is children, because children are often the infinite regress, you say Go to bed and they say Why. They ask difficult questions. Right. Go to bed. Why？Because you need to sleep. Why do I need to sleep? To be healthy. Why do I need to be healthy? Otherwise you get sick. Why will I get sick？Right...You can see that this will go on for a very long time until like Descartes, you eventually say because I told you so, right? Or for Descartes because God told you so, you need… Exactly. You need some authority. This does sound like a rabbit hole that you just fall into. Yeah, so we have one more. Right. And the last one is usually called coherentism. 融贯论. What is coherentism？

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